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Newspaper Page Text8 /, g ■ gz* 3 I B ' S I J >a jb J^^itatiqn^.; t lO <ittitt>»rt«>»t»»«**»» »» ♦♦ »*«*♦«'. • e •♦♦»»■• e »!»>»«♦ * QUESTION AND ANSWER DEPARTMENT. ♦ ♦ The Journal aesires to tncrvw ♦ pages la every way Fosatble. »o ♦ Ugalrtee aad anrwere la to to gres ♦ ttoalag to cgrioultare, the propar M ♦ fartUlaora. eesdlag for crops, stoc ♦ ■ aad la fact, an subjects partala ♦ ttoa may to aonght or practical aa ♦ la theca oolumaa. ♦ Wo request oar readers to ue ♦ doaror to furnish information, if th ♦ dressed to »r. Andrew M. Boula, » ♦ Athena, CMu win receive prompt at ♦ Uahed la The aeml- Weakly Journal. ♦ WHAI EDUCATION MEANS TO PROGRESS Education is the leavening influence Which has advanced civilisation to its pieoent comparatively high level. In a period of two thousand years the world has advanced from a stage of savagry, <m at least semi-savagry. to one of rela tively high standards and ideals. The wisdom of the ancient Greeks and Romans is inferior in many respects to the knowledge of an American boy and g-ri of the present time who has received no more than a high school education. In the days of Julius Caesar, when Rome was an imperial power, all natural phe nomena were looked upon with awe and fear. It was an age when might was right; when vague and unfounded super stition distracted the mind of man. and material progress and the industries in cident thereto were at a remarkably low ebb. Agriculture, the world’s most an cient art. was practiced In the crudest manner imaginable. For the most part conditions prevailed, and the comparatively sparse population lived In a nomadic fashion. The great service which the physical forces of nature were destined to render mankind was un dreauued of, and hence for thousands of years but little progress was made in the elevation of the human race. Nature was the task master and not the friend of man. The ligTitnlng of the heavens. In stead of representing a latent force to be harvested and utilised for the uplift of humanity was a dreadful mystery. The wonderful transforming powers of water when changed from its natural condition to steam had not occurred to man. The service which various friendly forms of bacterial life renders man in the growth of his crop and in affording the race im munity from certain peatelental diseases was not even suspected. Is it any wonder under these conditions that progress was -low. and that the discovery and utilisa tion of the physical forces of nature in n'-xlern times, to even a slight degree, should have resulted in the marvelous 'irivancement made by the leading na tions of the world within the past few years? It is strange that not until re cently ha'-e we come to realise that na ture is a great slumbering giant whose latent force once appreciated and reduced to the service of man insures the con tinual evolution of the race and the con stant supplying of its needs as numbers h’crease and the ages advance. How has this changed attitude of the human race towards nature and the con sequent blessings it has conferred upon humanity been brought about? Through the development of our system of schools and colleges and the Industrious prosecu tion of research through the generosity of private and public Institutions. There has also been a change with regard to our ideal of a hero, for today the man really entitled to this sobriquet is not the man of brute strength, but the man who through his patient and self-sacrific ing investigations has added some little truth to our knowledge of natural phe nomena. Public education has paved the way for the breaking down of the mighty superstition of past ages which kept man tn subjection to nature and prevented him from utilising apd profiting by the gifts which she stood ready to confer. Hence. It is to education that we owe Nd® 5-Calor Catalog Mow Ready—Let Ut Mall You a Copy Today SB I AJ By ail means get thia valuable FREE Book before buying your Vehicle or Hamess. It Is the TBit 1/ N UMsrt eosuptete Vetocle Catalog ever published: full of valuable Information and worth at least ■w »•<* te every vehicle ueer It fully gewrlbe. ever 160 styles of Vehicles, Wagons and Hamess. CSjjjHMy at prices whleh save yws MO.OO to 940.00. CUT HERE AMD MAIL TODAY. flelden Bugle Oe., Station S, Atlanta, Ua. 1 Bentlemau: Please mall me,, postpaid, your new »color lee-rage Catalog. Name ...». ...». M ... m County M ..w...,. Fstooaiae ~ .. .. B. F. D. No I ■■■ .1 ■■■■... I Readers, Special Notice If yon are not a REGULAR SUBSCRIBER to the Semi-Weekly Journal we hope that yon. will be interested enough in this sample copy to favor us with your subscription. The regular sixe of the Semi-Weekly Journal is eight pages. (Never less than eight, and often more.) We furnish you the NEWS OF THE WORLD in condensed form, a first class MARKET REPORT and GENERAL AGRICULTURAL NEWS, besides SPECIAL ar ticles by PROF ANDREW M. SOULE, PRESIDENT of the GEORGIA STATE AGRICUL. TUBAL COLLEGE You cannot afford to be without the Semi-Weekly Journal for the small price we ask, ~ and we will make you ths following LIBERAL OFFER, just to GET YOUR NAME ON OUR MAIL LIST AS A REGULAR SUBSCRIBER: WE WILL GIVE YOU One year’s subscription to the Semi-Weekly Journal One year’s subscription to the Southern Agriculturist One year’s subscription to the Woman’s World Magazine And a Five-Year Guaranteed Safety Razor All for SI.OO trusting you will tak? advantage of this most liberal offer and favor us with your sub scription, and thanking you in advance for same, we are, very truly yours, THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL P. R. RANDOLPH, Manager, ATLANTA, GA. ISO «to usefulness of its agricultural ♦ > r this purpose, the department of ♦ ktly enlarged. Any information per- ♦ i Uags of the soil, the proper neo of ♦ :k and cattle breeding, poultry raising ♦ ling to the farm upon which informs- ♦ i ggoetioas offered, will to published ♦ ♦ io these pages freely. Wo will en- ♦ io questions are asked. Letters ad- ♦ 'resident Mato Agricultural College. ♦ I tention. and the replies will be pnb- <> ♦ the uplift, the inspiration and the redirec tion of human affairs. It is to education that we owe the passing of the ages of brutality and the ushering in of a period of comparative peace and security to human existence. To education we owe the development of the arts and indus tries which have made the past century the marvel of all history and promise to make all the past triumphs of man pale into insignificance during the present cen tury. The debt we owe to the uplifting agency of education is not appreciated as it should be. nor as It must be if the nations of the world are to be fed and clothed and kept in comfort in the future. It is pleasant to portray the achieve ments of man and to forecast the future, but let us see if there are no clouds gath ering on the horizon which threaten to upset our present industrial act’-'“*s ana to make human existence a more compli cated problem in the immediate future than it has been In the past. Our indus trial activities in America, for instance, are the marvel of the world. These in dustries have been developed, however, at the expense of our natural resources. We have destroyed the forests; we are exhausting the iron, coal and other min erals at an alarming rate. Our soils, once the richest in the world, has become se riously impoverished, and today are growing something like 14 bushels ’*sf wheat per acre, and an average during recent years of between 180 and 190 pounds of lint cotton per acre. The cost of liv ing has gone up by leaps and bounds within the last few years, and America, even in the face of a high protective tariff and an apparently high w-age for the laboring man. is no longer the poor man’s paradise. These alarming condi tions have been forcibly called to our at tention by the increased cost of living in the past few years. If it is true that our lands are being exhausted, what of the future with all our boasted civilisa tion and devotion to education and educa tional ideals? Unless something is done, the supremacy, yes. the very existence of the nation is threatened. ♦ QUESTIONS ANSWERED ♦ PREPARING LAND FOR COTTON. H. W. 8.. Sylvania. Ga., writes. I would like to have information in regard to the fertilisation of cotton on land which has a dark top soil and red clay subsoil. Our experience in growing cotton during the past season is probably the best guide to follow in suggesting the best method of fertilising this crop under the condi tions in your section of the state. We used between 500 and 000 pounds of 3-10-4 fertiliser on cotton grown on red clay up lands. This cotton made an excellent growth until the first of August and promised to yield better than one bale per acre. When the dry weather of August struck it, however, the squares and leaves were shed and the yield is very poor and a great disappointment Ho us. While It is true that the weather was unu- THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 3. 1909 BOYS' AND GIRLS' CORN CONTEST. SPARTA. GA_ Hik Jmß 4MLHW WrWA < t - I sually hot and the drouth greatly pro longed, cotton on which a similar amount of fertiliser and some vegetable matter In the from of yard manure was applied un der the drill row and on land similar in character to that on which the commer cial fertiliser alone was used will yield at the rate of one bale or more per acre. Moreover, the cotton where the’ commer cial fertiliser alone was used has all been picked; and we have only made the sec ond picking of the cotton where yard ma nure and Commercial fertilizers were both used. We think from our experience that about 500 pounds of a high-grade fertili zer is the right amount to use under cot ton. Os course, whpre the land Is very poor and one seeks extraordinarily large yields, from I.COO to 1,500 pounds can be used. For general field cultivation, how ever, as heavy fertilization as this is prob ably inadvisable, and it certainly is un less the farmer is prepared to increase the vegetable matter in his soil very con siderably. it is true that in some sections of southern Georgia they seem to grow at the present time an abundance of weed, but do not scure the proper fruiting of the plant. This may be true of your im mediate section, but if so, it is the ex ception and not the rule. Where you grow’ enough weed already, we would sug gest that you increase, first of all, the amount of phosphoric acid you are using, and second, the amount of potash. For ourselves we would commence im mediately a rotation of crops, bringing cowpeas, vetch and various other le gumes on the land and so arranging our practice as to supply a considerable amount of vegetable matter and nitrogen to the soil through the uae of legumin ous crops, which under proper conditions gather their nitrogen chiefly from the air. Then we would use a high-grade fer tilizer. such as has been suggested. Os course, there are many other formulas which may be used; that is, those con taining a higher percentage of nitrogen or potash; and the source of the nitro gen may be cotton-seed meal, nitrate of soda, sulphate of ommonla, blood or tank age. In our experience, however, cotton seed meal of a high grade has given us nitrogen in about as cheap and efficient a form as we have secured it. It is true that nitrate of soda can be used as a top dressing very frequently with goon advantage on the cotton crop. But this is only probably the case w’here the land is naturally deficient tn vegetable mat ter. I know many persons Interested in the cultivation of cotton think it is difficult for them to begin a rotation of cropu, and they want some short method by w’hlch they can Increase the yield through the use of commercial fertilizers alone. While there is no person more appre ciative of commercial fertilizers than the writer, we have depended on them too ex clusively in the past, and many of our soils do not respond to their use as well as they once did. This is undoubted ly due to the lessening of the amount of vegetable matter and nitrogen in the soil, and whenever we remove this defect and use properly balanced fertilizers in reasonable amounts, we can certainly in- crease the yield of cotton on our land at a good profit. Our experience show.- thls very distinctly, and we would sug gest that It is better to limit the area devoted to cotton and put the land in proper condition, for on certain sections where this has been done we have been able to raise selected strains of cotton seed tills year which have given a tyield of more than two bales per acre. Surely it is better to raise two bales per acre on a limited area than to scatter out energies over four to eight acres and se cure the same results. ACUTE INDIGESTION IN HORSES W. A. S., Duluth. Ga., writes: My horse was taken sick about 11 o’clock Friday night kicking the wall off the sta ble. I went to the barn and gave him five ears of corn. Early next morning I went to him again and found he had eat en about half of the corn. I gave him some fodder and he ate part of it. I turned him out in the lot and gave him some peavine hay. At 10 o’clock I went back and he seemed to be very busy fighting flies. He kept getting worse, so I sent for a veterinarian and he pro nounced it the first stages of blind stag gers. He bled him about 5 o’clock in the afternoon. He was bled again at 8 o’clock, and T>y this time had commenced to grab at the plank fence with his teeth. He rubbed his nose against the fence un til he rubbed the skin off; then he would lay down and bite his leg with his teeth. He kept biting at things ( for some time and then commenced to perspire and got very wet. He died at 1:30 Sunday morn ing. He never slobbered any and drank water a short time before he died. The neighbors that saw him did not pronounce it rabies. The principal feeds given him were corn, fodder and peavine hay, and salt regularly, and two pounds of sulphur several days back in broken doses. He was 12 years old. I would like your opin ion of what was the matter with him. We are Inclined to think from the de scription contained In your letter that your horse was suffering from aome form of Indigestion raffier than from rabies, though of course it Is a very difficult matter to diagnose a case except on per sonal examination, and then symptoms are often so confusing as to make fine distinctions difficult. We would say th* Iwrse was suffering from either acute in testinal indigestion or from some obstruc tion of the bowels. In cages of cramp or spasmodic colic the are quite similar to thope contained In your letter. The pain comes on Suddenly ano is severe. The horse kicks and points to ward the flank with his nose, or throws himself down violently and rolls If op portunity affords. Breathing is rapid, the pulse high and the animal often sweats profusely. The horse stretches and strains as if attempting to void urine. After a while the pain apparently ceases and the animal appears quite at ease, but an attack comes on in a few minutes again. The treatment is to get the animal in a comfortable place where he can roll with out injury. Then give an enema of six to eight quarts of rather warm water, containing half a teacupful of glycerine. The 'animal may be given one ounce of laudanum ana half an ounce of spirits of camphor in half a pint of warm water. Jamaica ginger in two-ounce doses or chloral hydrate in one-half ounce doses, dissolved in one-hfclf pint of warm water, is very good for this trouble. Another good remedy is sweet spirits of niter in ounce doses. Blankets wrung out of hot water and applied to the belly often re lieve the pain. Medicines for spasmodic colic should be given as drenches and well diluted with not water. A table spoonful of common baking soda dissolv ed in warm water and given as a drench is excellent. It is generally a good plan in cases such as you describe to give a quart Qf raw linaeed oil, or four to six drams of aloes In a ball to empty the bowels. The medicines should not be given too close together and overdosing is inadvisable. The following is a useful colic mixture and should be kept on hand: Two ounces chloral hydrate, two ounces laudanum, one ounce sulphuric ether, two ounces aromatic spirits or ammonia, four ounces of essence of Jamaica ginger and one-half ounce of creolin. Two table spoonfuls in one-half pint of rather hot water would constitute a dose and re peated in one-half hour. FEEDING VALVE OF MOLASSES. C. W. B. writes: I would like all the information you can give me concerning molasses as a feed, also if the molasses feeds now on the market are economical feeding stuffs? Molasses has been used with more or less success in the fattening of beef cat tle and in the nutrition of dairy cows and horses. Molasses has probably been fed more extensively to horses in Louisi ana than in any other section. From 9 to 12 pounds are often used in the ra tion. the molasses as a rule being diluted slightly with water and sprayed over or mixed with the cut feed. In addition to the molasses corn or oats and cotton seed meal are fed. not over 3 pounds of cotton seed meal being used per head per day. It is found that by the addition of mo lasses and cotton seed meal the cost of maintaining horses and mules may be greatly reduced, their efficiency in < teased, and the animals kept in better condition, generally speaking. Os course, molasses is probably cheaper and more satisfactory as a foodstuff in Louisiana than elsewhere owing to the proxlmjty of the sugar plantations, but it can often be transported in tank cars or even in bar rels for long distances and will then prove an economic factor in the nutri tion of farm live stock. At the Texas station molasses was fed to beef cattle and when added to a ra tion of cotton seed meal and hulls in cseased the gain at a lower cost; those re ceiving molasses, for instance, gaining 3.11 pounds per head per day, and those not receiving it. 2.59 pounds. The steers in this experiment were about two years old and received one-fifth of a gallon of molasses per head per day. In another trial made at the same station it was found that the addition of molasses to a ration of cotton seed meal and hulls low ered the cost and increased the gain; and that the addition of molasses to a bal anced ration gave larger gains as well as improving the appearance of the cat tle. There were no undesirable results from feeding as much as one gallon of molasses per head per day to yearling steers. The returns from molasses amounted to 3 to 30 cents per gallon, a lower gain resulting when the molasses was fed with a well balanced ration. At the Massachusetts station Porto Rico molasses was tested for dairy cows,, and Seemed to be that while molasses did not produce any un favorable effect upon the flavor of the milk, that it could not be used to take the place of corn meal and other carbo-hy drates to any material advantage in the northeastern section of the United States. As an appetizer for sows or for ani mals out of condition, or for insuring the consumption of unpalatable and in ferior roughness, two to three pounds of molasses daily will prove helpful. At the same station the conclusion was reached that molasres was of comparatively little value to horses except as an appetizer and tonic or a preventive of colic. This conclusion seems to be out of accord with the results obtained in Louisiana. With regard to the use of molasses feeds which were tested with cows at the Massachusetts station, the conclusion was reached that while the molasses feed provided a little cheaper ration than the home mixture, yet the home mixture fur nished decidedly more digestible protein and organic matter than the molasses ration, and that the home prepared ra tion was therefore more desirable from the Mandpoint of the dairyman. This conclusion concerning molasses feeds is due ta a measure to the fact that most of thim were found by this station to contain a large amount of hulls, screen ings and other undesirable and low-grade material which tends to reduce digestibil ity and thus lower the efficiency of the ration. It was suggested by this station that a suitable ration sos cows might be prepared by mixing 500 pounds of bran, 600 pounds of cotton seed meal, 200 pounds of gluten feed, 500 pounds of molasses and 200 pounds of oat feed. PREVENTION OF INJURY BY WEE VILS. L. N. H., Oliver, Ga., writes: I would like directions for using carbon bisul phide for destroying weevils in corn. The simplest. and best remedy for the eradication of the weevil which attacks corn in carbon bisulphide. It should be used at tne rate of one pound to one ton of grain, or in empty rooms, one pound for every 1,000 cubic feet of space. The material can be purchased at any drug store, and the treatment to be effective should be given where the grain can be stored in a comparatively tight bin. Since carbon bisulphide is heavier than air and evaporates very quickly it should be placed in pans and set on top of the grain when it will evaporate and sink down through the grain and effectively destroy the weevils, provided the grain U put in a tight bin or box so that the carbon bisulphide will not be dissipated by overdilution With the air. You should remember that carbon bisulphide is ex ceedingly inflammable and should not be used near a fire or light. You should also recollect that as beetles lay eggs and one generation follows another very rapidly it is often necessary to treat grain two or three times in suc cesjjjon to effectually destroy the pest. The treatment should be repeated in three <>r four weeks. WEDDED BESIDE HER FATHER’S t>EAD BODY CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—Beside her father’s body. Miss Juanita C. Howard was mar ried today to Irving Harriott. The min ister who performed the marriage cere mony a few minutes later read the fu neral service. James Howard, “the father of the American derby,” was fatally Injured in an automobile accident last week and asked that his daughter be wedded in his presence. He became unconscious before the ceremony could be performed, never regaining his senses. Childress* S. C. White Leghorns World’s Best Egg Prodncers Medicine. I keep it on hand all the around, all I have to do to adjust ||| dry Medicine. 1 heartily recoin ” Try it - BLACK-DRAUGHT STOCK & POULTRY MEDICINE BOSTROM'S FARM LEVELS Are* Being Welcomed by Land Owners From the Atlantic to the Pacific Shipping For Terroclnp. Ditching. Draining. Grading, Road Weight Building. Running Fmeen. Setting Out Oreharda. 15 IhS- 11 J Levelling Buildingn and Foundationt, Irrigating. K - -n Getting Anglet. sod < v«! 17 sort of work a Level. With a BOHTHOM outfit in bis possession, no man needs a Surveyor or Civil Engineer. Siniplleitg, Aecvracg. DnraMlitg. GUARAFTXSD. 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I centurymfg. co., ■ BLOODY BATTLE OF FRANKLIN DESCRIBED BY EYEWITNESS Tuesday, the 30th of November, Is the anniversary of one of the bloodiest bat tles of the civil war. the day on whlcn one of the most dramatic .campaigns of that gigantic struggle between the north and south came to a climax at Franklin, where the south made her last desper ate stand for the possession of Tennes see. Many Atlantians are still alive who, too* part in that battle, many whose eyes will grow wet and dim at the recol lections conjured up by the following elo quent description of the heroic events of that day, written for The Journal by Rheps M. Duke. Esq., veteran of Stovall's brigade, Steverson’s division, Stephen D. Lee’s corps of the army of Tennessee: “On the 30th of November, 1864. amid the crash of musketry and the thunder of cannon and the wild cries of crashing squadron, the curtain fell on the close of one of the most dramatic and stirring campaigns of the great war between the north and south. “The south was making, as the sequel showed, her last desperate struggle for the possession and mastery of Tennes- “A beautiful landscape, with the smil ing fields and peaceful homes, is now spread over the scene of that fierce and bloody conflict. “A generation has been born since that day, anff its men and women have reach ed life's high noon and are, themselves, the fathers and mothers of still another on-coming generation. To these, in the swift rush and succession of modern events, the battle of Franklin, which is one of the incidents of the war, is already almost ancient history. “Even to us, the ever and swiftly lessen ing survivors of that day, its events are becoming as shadowy as the scenes and faces we see in dreams. WAS GLORIOUS MORNING. “It may be appropriate, therefore, to the day and the occasion to call up again the heroic story of that bloody battlefield. On that morning the sun was shining warm and brightly, the birds were sing ing sweetly, and all nature seemed to be smiling in contrast of the bloody work just ahead and soon to be encountered by Hood’s army. The scene that was then and there unfolded would have Inspired the most arrant coward to deeds of he roism. * , Glory and admiration reached their zenith as Hood’s army deployed with great regularity on each side of the turn pike leading into Franklin. Cheatham’s Tennessee division was placed in front and was leading the charge in magnifi cent style—officers with drawn swords, the stars and bars in brave hands, float ing defiantly to the breeze, with bands playing “Home, Sweet Home.” Many of these men had not been home for over three and were almost in sight of lovedi ones, but death closed their eyes in battle before reaching them. To the left of the turnpike wai a growth of locust trees, and not a limb or a leaf or a twig was left but what was torn into ribbons. Muskets, canteens, knapsacks—in fact, everything that makes up the accoutre ments of the soldier, were here scattered in all directions. In the middle of the road, evidently smashed by a solid shot, was a broken caisson or an artillery wagon, while a brass cannon lay a few feet away with a dead soldier lying face downward across it. PILES OF DEAD BODIES. , To the right of the turnpike was the historic gin house, which was filled with thousand of bullets and fragments of shell. At this point the dead lay thick est. One could have walked a distance of hundreds of yards and never once have stepped upon the ground, walking on dead bodies all the way. It would have been necessary In some places to have climbed over heaps of the dead. The wonder was kiot that there were so many dead but that any lived. Officers and privates all made a com mon cause here, and rank was forever obliterated, for among the dead could be seen the shining stars and golden wreath on the collar of the coat that wa, buttoned neatly but closely around the neck of that great soldier and patriot. Gen. Pat Cleburne, mingled with the ordi nary gray uniform of the common sol dier. This battle was made famous by ths wonderful bravery of the sons of the south and the death of Maj. Gen. Pat Cleburne. Brig. Gens. 8. R. Gist, John Adams, Strahl, and H. B. Granberry, and the wounding of Gen. John C. Brown, Brig. Gens. Carter, Manigault, Quarles, Cockrlll and Scott, and the killing or wounding of a multitude of other he roes. Gen. George W. Gordon, now of Mem phis, Tenn., and at the head of the Ten nessee division, U. . C: V., was captured inside the enemy’s breastworks. Many Georgians were killed and wounded in that desperate battle. Gen. A. J. West, of Atlanta, former commander of the Georgia division, U. C. V„ was wounded. Whenever I meet him I feel like raising my hat for hie superb conduct on that occasion. He was then aronnd 18 years of age. was serving on the staff of Gen. Carter L. Stevenson. The air was thick with flying shells, one exploding in our front, killing several and wounding West in the forehead and left hand. He was one of the handsomest boys in the army, and on that day was one of the bloodiest soldiers I saw dur ing the whole war. PRESIDENT BEGINS HIS ANNUAL MESSAGE WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—The presi dent has begun dictating his annu«l message to congress and will be busily engaged at that task for the next few days. He expects to complete the work and have it in the hands of the public printer by the middle of the present week.